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With the passage into law of general military conscription, a calm seemed to fall over the political scene in Whitehall in the late spring of 1916. ‘For the moment,’ A. J. P. Taylor has written, ‘the life seemed to go out of political controversy.’
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Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, The Real War, 1914–1918 (London, 1964 edn) p. 234.
Sir Llewellyn Woodward, Great Britain and the War of 1914–1918 (London, 1970) p. 151.
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Adams, R.J.Q., Poirier, P.P. (1987). The Search for a System. In: The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900–18. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08787-7_9
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